Stat Comparison: Louisville vs. Boston College

Louisville will travel to Chestnut Hill on Saturday to face the Boston College Eagles. BC is 4-2 on the season and battled with undefeated NC State last week without standout running back AJ Dillon.

UofL’s offense has grown dramatically over the past two weeks, but that growth isn’t yet reflected in the overall national rankings. Defensively the Cards took a major step backward against Georgia Tech.

The Boston College game will challenge UofL upfront on both sides of the ball. The Cards have struggled to win the line of scrimmage and BC wins the line of scrimmage. The Eagles are a power football team.

The good news for UofL is that BC’s defense is vulnerable (UofL’s is too) so I expect a great deal of points in this match-up and Louisville has to take care of the ball if they expect to be in this one and they have to TACKLE defensively. The Eagles aren’t overly scary, but they do things the right way and they take advantage of their opponent’s mistakes. It’s not out of the realm of possibility that UofL CAN win. But it’s hard to predict that until we see the Cards actually get a W to snap a 3-game losing streak.